This brief text outlines the complex processes through which Latin America became independent of Spain and Portugal in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The author argues that three major forces shaped the contours of independence: 1) the rise of a single world economy driven especially by the rise of industrial capitalism in England, 2) the response of the Latin American elites as they sought to gain advantage from these changes, and 3) the constant pressure exerted upon the elites by Indians, mestizos, blacks, slaves, and the poor generally. This edition uses a conceptual framework which places emphasis on the social pressures for independence mounted by non-elites.

Independence In Latin America: A Comparative Approach

History

Graham, Richard

Americas

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

JACK AND THE MONSTER

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Winner, Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2011Murdo J. McLeod Book Prize, 2011On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, slave and free, Brazilian, Portuguese, and African—were connected in tangled ways to each other and to practically everyone else in the city, and are the subjects of this book. Food traders formed the city's most dynamic social component during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, constantly negotiating their social place. The boatmen who brought food to the city from across the bay decisively influenced the outcome of the war for Brazilian independence from Portugal by supplying the insurgents and not the colonial army. Richard Graham here shows for the first time that, far from being a city sharply and principally divided into two groups—the rich and powerful or the hapless poor or enslaved—Salvador had a population that included a great many who lived in between and moved up and down.The day-to-day behavior of those engaged in food marketing leads to questions about the government's role in regulating the economy and thus to notions of justice and equity, questions that directly affected both food traders and the wider consuming public. Their voices significantly shaped the debate still going on between those who support economic liberalization and those who resist it.

Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860 (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

University of Texas Press

Winner, Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2011 Murdo J. McLeod Book Prize, 2011
On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, slave and free, Brazilian, Portuguese, and African—were connected in tangled ways to each other and to practically everyone else in the city, and are the subjects of this book. Food traders formed the city's most dynamic social component during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, constantly negotiating their social place. The boatmen who brought food to the city from across the bay decisively influenced the outcome of the war for Brazilian independence from Portugal by supplying the insurgents and not the colonial army. Richard Graham here shows for the first time that, far from being a city sharply and principally divided into two groups—the rich and powerful or the hapless poor or enslaved—Salvador had a population that included a great many who lived in between and moved up and down.
The day-to-day behavior of those engaged in food marketing leads to questions about the government's role in regulating the economy and thus to notions of justice and equity, questions that directly affected both food traders and the wider consuming public. Their voices significantly shaped the debate still going on between those who support economic liberalization and those who resist it.

Business & Money

Economics

Independence in Latin America: Contrasts and Comparisons (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

In the course of fifteen momentous years, the Spanish- and the Portuguese-American empires that had endured for three centuries came to an end in the mid-1820s. How did this come about? Not all Latin Americans desired such a change, and the independence wars were civil wars, often cruel and always violent. What social and economic groups lined up on one side or the other? Were there variations from place to place, region to region? Did men and women differ in their experience of war? How did Indians and blacks participate and how did they fare as a result? In the end, who won and who lost?
Independence in Latin America is about the reciprocal effect of war and social dislocation. It also demonstrates that the war itself led to national identity and so to the creation of new states. These governments generally acknowledged the novel principle of constitutionalism and popular sovereignty, even when sometimes carving out exceptions to such rules. The notion that society consisted of individuals and was not a body made up of castes, guilds, and other corporate orders had become commonplace by the end of these wars. So international politics and military confrontations are only part of the intriguing story recounted here.
For this third edition, Richard Graham has written a new introduction and extensively revised and updated the text. He has also added new illustrations and maps.

In depth info on Latin American countries coming to Independence.

Independence in Latin America

Random House, Inc.

Although Jack has trouble getting used to the "monster" that has joined his household and turned it upside down, he eventually finds that a kiss turns the newcomer into an acceptable baby brother

Jack and the Monster

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

A charming story about a cranky caterpillar and Ezra, the little girl who finally manages to cheer him up One day Ezra hears a gloomy blue tune coming from the piano. To her surprise, it's a caterpillar making the sound: a cranky caterpillar. Ezra tries to cheer him up with some fresh air, cakes, and new hats, but nothing seems to work… What can Ezra do to help the cranky caterpillar change his tune? Richard Graham is a new illustrator with a highly distinctive and original style. The origins of The Cranky Caterpillar lie in his own artistic sculptural creations: a caterpillar created from the hammers inside an old piano, a band of musical characters, all sculpted from instruments and materials found in his studio. Graham has also been inspired by Wassily Kandinsky's color synesthesia, whereby we are shown the magical colors of music, in this splendidly illustrated book. Children will identify with the struggle the caterpillar goes through, in trying to articulate his emotions, and will delight in the inventive band of friends that succeed in cheering him up. Illustrated in color throughout

The Cranky Caterpillar

Animals

Thames&Hudson

The Cranky Caterpillar /anglais

Growing Up & Facts of Life

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Independence In Latin America: A Comparative Approach

JACK AND THE MONSTER

Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860 (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860 (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Independence in Latin America: Contrasts and Comparisons (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Independence in Latin America: Contrasts and Comparisons (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Independence in Latin America

Jack and the Monster

The Cranky Caterpillar

The Cranky Caterpillar /anglais